. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/91 
30 March 2007 
 (07-1331) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  COLOMBIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de la Protección Social   (Ministry of Social Welfare) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Fish, molluscs and 
crustaceans (HS tariff heading 03) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de la Protección Social "Por la cual se establece el reglamento 
técnico sobre los requisitos fisicoquímicos y microbiológicos que deben cumplir los 
productos de la pesca, en particular pesc ados, moluscos y crustáceos para el consumo 
humano"  (Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Social Welfare issuing the technical 
regulation on the physico-chemical and microbi ological requirements for fishery products, 
in particular fish, molluscs and crustaceans for human consumption) (9 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Purpose;  Scope;  Definitions;  Species;  General requirements;  
Physico-chemical requirements;  Microbiologi cal requirements;  Labelling;  Packaging;  
Sanitary requirements for exportation;  Insp ection, monitoring and control;  Conformity 
assessment;  Review and updating;  Notification and Period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 Protection of human life, health and safe ty and prevention of practices liable to 
mislead or deceive consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Article 564 of Law No. 09 of 1979, Decree No. 3075 of 1997 and 
Resolution No. 0670 of 9 March 2007 of the Ministry of Social Welfare, notified in document G/TBT/N/COL/90. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Six (6) months as from the date of publication in the Official Journal. G/TBT/N/COL/91 
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  10. Final date for comments:   28 June 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
Enquiry Point : 
Contact person: Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Tel.: (+571) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 
Fax: (+571) 241-0480 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 No. 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: (+571) 241-0478 Web site: http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/sirt  Ministerio de la Protección Social 
Dirección General de Salud Pública 
Grupo de Promoción y Prevención Carrera 13 No. 32-76 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+571) 330-5000, Exts. 1440 to 1445 
Fax:  (+571) 330-5050 
E-mail:  bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co Web site: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co